Summary Terror activities in Pakistan also mentioned in US State Department’s country reports on terrorism
WASHINGTON (Dunya News) - US State Department has issued a long report in which details of terror activities in various countries is given, including Pakistan.
The detail of National Action Plan (NAP) was written, calling it a response of Peshawar School attack and it was written that NAP has helped in reduction of terrorist activities but terrorists were not been eliminated. It was also mentioned that NAP’s main objectives were to punish established terrorists, eliminate support for terrorism, and promote the non-violent coexistence of the country’s various religious sects, all to prevent future terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil.
Dunya News was also mentioned in the report as death toll of January 2015 Shikarpur blast given by Dunya News was being quoted in the report. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Agency (PEMRA) ban on organizations such as Jamaat-u-Dawa (JuD) and the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FiF) is mentioned but it is also written that government did not stop fund raising of these organisations.
It is written in the report that Pakistan took steps to support political reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban but it also mentioned that Pakistan did not take sufficient action to constrain the ability of the Taliban and the Haqqani Network (HQN) to threaten U.S. and Afghan interests in Afghanistan.
The report also said that Pakistan designated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as a terrorist organisation and security forces publicly warned of scattered Pakistani terrorist allegiance to ISIL and its threat to Pakistani military targets. But it also said that Pakistan did not join the multilateral Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, but Pakistani officials participated in a senior level meeting of the coalition in September.
The details of 9 different terror activities in different cities of Pakistan in year 2015 was given including the death tolls and number of injuries. Details of attacks on minorities and US citizen was also written in the report.
21st Amendment of the Pakistani Constitution was also mentioned in the report which allowed Pakistan Army’s military courts to try civilians for “offenses relating to terrorism, waging of war or insurrection against Pakistan, and prevention of acts threatening the security of Pakistan by any terrorist group using the name of religion or a sect and members of such armed groups, wings, and militia.”
The report also says that at the federal level, Pakistan’s law enforcement and national security structures need improvement and government’s institutional framework is not conducive to interagency cooperation and coordination.
It is written in the report that Pakistan military continued to conduct significant counterterrorism operations in North Waziristan and Khyber agencies in the tribal areas, and a combination of military, paramilitary, and civilian forces conducted operations in Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Punjab.
